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Foreign these actions, he was incarcerated at the Montreal Pied-du-Courant Prison and was hanged at the site by the British authorities. On January 11, 1839 De Lorimier and three of his comrades (two of whom managed to escape before being executed. The other was Chevrier Bénard) appeared before the British Council of War.
However, Jean-Baptiste-Henri Brien, one of his co-accused and terrified of the scaffold, signed a confession incriminating De Lorimier and others and the British authorities, having failing to seize the main leaders of the rebellion, arguably pursued his death to make an example.
I die without remorse. In the insurrection I only desired the well-being and independence of my country.
That is what fills me with joy when all around me is sorry and desolation. Poor orphans, it is you who are to be pitied, you whom the bloody and arbitrary hand of the law strikes through my death.
De Lorimier was born in Saint-Cuthbert, Lower Canada.
He was executed with such people as the French-born Charles Hindelang. His character plays a notable role in Pierre Falardeau"s film February 15, 1839 about the incarceration and execution of the Patriotes. De Lorimier Avenue honours his memory in Montreal.